RICHMOND – The Missouri State High School Activities Association has limited what local prep sports coaches and athletes, including in Excelsior Springs and Richmond, can do while the spring sports season hangs in limbo. “We can’t do anything officially; no school, no practice,” Richmond golf coach Murray Dennis stated March 26 via email. “MSHSAA puts limitations on what the kids can do. They can’t organize ‘student-led’ activities, either.” Specifically, MSHSAA stated in an email that it does not want member schools doing anything that violates the precautions the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other governmental agencies have recommended Americans take to help contain the coronavirus, Orrick golf coach and Athletic Director Mitch Comstock said. The organization stated that if students are, say, “getting together in a group of 20 or 25 kids and going out running, that really defeats the idea of social distancing,” Comstock said during a phone interview. “They…